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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jun 3, 2014
Description:
One of the two coolest airplanes at the Festival of Flight fly-in (KSFQ) on Sunday was this ME-262 full-scale replica. It belongs to the Military Aviation Museum, just a short hop from SFQ.
Date Taken:
Jun 3, 2014
Place Taken:
KSFQ (Suffolk VA)
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
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Don Maxwell - Jun 03,2014
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Dan Nickens - Jun 03,2014
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Now that's something you don't see often! Very, very cool.
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Eric Batterman - Jun 03,2014
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Is it airworthy? Modern engines? Did you see it fly?
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Don Maxwell - Jun 03,2014
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Naw, I missed the flying parts, but it's certainly airworthy: they flew it from the museum and were going to return it there. <P>I asked the museum's head of maintenance if it has the original centrifugal-flow engines, and he said--well, I don't remember the engines' numbers, but they're out of an early Citation or some similar jet, so I guess that would make them modern axial-flow.<P>It's one of four repros that were built in Seattle (I think he said) from the original plans, and a fifth is under construction now. The plans and tools have been returned to Messerschmidt, which may make more of them.<P><img src="inline/20008-MOM_MaintenanceGuy_15pc.jpg" alt="MOM-MaintenanceGuy-15pc"><P>I met this guy several years ago while taxiing to Suffolk's runway 04 for takeoff. A big hangar had the door open, and there was a B-25 sitting just inside. I parked and went inside. A few minutes later this guy was showing me how to get up into the cockpit by myself. "Have a good look," he said. "Just don't start the engines." Cool guy. The entire museum is the same kind of cool.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Don Maxwell - Jun 03,2014
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The Suffolk's jump school uses a Shorts Skyvan, a big homely airplane. But its data plate is very elegant:
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Frank A. Carr - Jun 04,2014
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Don, Speaking of 'homely airplanes', back in the 70's or 80's NASA used to launch many sounding rocket payloads from the Wallops Island, VA facility. The payloads were parachuted back and recovered by a Short Brothers "Homely" looking airplane, similar to the Skyvan. They would trail a grappling hook on a long tether, hooking the chutes and payloads mid-air. Appropriately perhaps it was named the "Ugly Hooker".<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Don Maxwell - Jun 03,2014
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During the airshow I lay on the grass to watch the acro parts--and noted this smoke trail way up high.
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Don Maxwell - Jun 03,2014
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Here's the museum's info about this ME-262: <br /><a href="http://www.militaryaviationmuseum.org/Messerschmitt_Me-262.html">http://www.militaryaviationmuseum.org/Messerschmitt_Me-262.h<br>tml</a>
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